Meriç Yurdatapan (born 1972) is a
Turkish woman
jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Its roots are in blues, ragtime, European harmony, African rhythmic rituals, spirituals, h ...
singer resident in Germany. Yurdatapan came to Germany at the age of 18 to study architecture but changed to study singing at the
University of Mainz
The Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz () is a public research university in Mainz, Rhineland Palatinate, Germany. It has been named after the printer Johannes Gutenberg since 1946. it had approximately 32,000 students enrolled in around 100 a ...
. She became well known in Germany from her concert ''Live in
Mainz
Mainz (; #Names and etymology, see below) is the capital and largest city of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, and with around 223,000 inhabitants, it is List of cities in Germany by population, Germany's 35th-largest city. It lies in ...
'', which became her first commercial record release.
Discography
*Meriç Yurdatapan ''Oriental Jazz Live in Mainz'' 2007
*Meriç Yurdatapan ''The Great Turkish Songbook''
[''The Great Turkish Songbook'' Essay on song tradition in CD booklet, accompanied by Turkish sung texts and English translations]
References
External links
Official Website
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Turkish jazz singers
1972 births
Living people
21st-century Turkish singers
21st-century Turkish women singers
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz alumni